Across the Wide Missouri: With an Account of the Discovery of the Miller Collection by Mae Reed Porter

Boston; Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin; Riverside Press. Large octavo in tan cloth and color pictorial, unclipped dust jacket; 483 pages, [48] leaves of plates: illustrations (some color); 25 cm.; jacket with a few small chips along the top edge and some light flaking at open corners/flap folds; jacket now protected in mylar; cloth is clean and free of frying and fraying; boards are free of bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks, creases and foxing; edges of leaves are clean; binding is tight and square; a gently loved copy of this classic. Fine copy in very good(+) jacket. in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

In English. Contents: The prairie traveler (1833) -- The brass knuckles (1832) -- Massacre: sport and business (1832) -- Paul Bunyan's fair (1833) -- Absaroka (1833) -- The theme of wonder (1833-1834) -- The winter lodge -- To men benighted (1834) -- Parable of the Samaritan (1835) -- The Meridian Passage (1836) -- The conqueror (1837) -- A painter on the trail (1837) -- Away, you rolling river (1838) -- Appendices: Chronology of the mountain fur trade -- The first illustrators of the west -- Notes.